Voting rights groups sue to block Ohio law that purges voters without warning

Voting rights groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday challenging Ohio’s sweeping new voter purge law.

They warn the measure could strip eligible citizens, especially naturalized citizens, from the rolls without notice, right before elections.

The League of Women Voters of Ohio and the Council on American-Islamic Relations–Northern Ohio sued Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R), seeking to block enforcement of Senate Bill 293 (SB 293) before it takes effect in March.

SB 293, passed in December, requires the secretary of state to conduct monthly comparisons of Ohio’s voter rolls against data from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the federal immigration database, SAVE. If a voter is flagged as a potential noncitizen, county boards of elections must cancel that registration.




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